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• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  the arts were not underappreciated. There was so much to do that I ... had come to MIT CPW with excitement but also deeply rooted stereotypes ... fun to see all the random students and faculty pass by and stop to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  pretty much any other group of AZN's that managed to get ASA funding. There ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to prove it to you? Aww, here goes. Today I ate a grape lollipop that Save

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  /sororities/independent living groups tend to have much lower housing prices, averaging about $1500 ... different options next summer... thanks." In response, I have to say that my situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  too much time deciding where to work and going there, when I should just ... ;becoming,' that I think I'll miss. I am resolved to enjoy it as much ... after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  too much not to enlarge, enshrine, and share it with the world. Well ... cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... and more Cantonese words, haha - I have resolved to start learning ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  imagine that they all convened at one place to throw a huge concert, and ... . And they don't just want to meet you--they're looking for people to go and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  't matter very much in the long run) - but rather because if you come to MIT ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical ... -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics ... the textbook more than just about any other textbook I've had to use

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  never forget? When did I stop thinking as much about how I was going to ... to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... to be released. I've spent the last week stressing over the question

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  to use this summer to experience both types and to learn as much as I ... . In an effort to see as much as I could, I was hesitant to revisit ... , was somewhere with so much variety, it was hard to get tired of it. The

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the ...  choosing between jobs to estimate their probability of making each choice. Their ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... I was going to say… turnef asked: How much time did you spend to ... of time (sorry!) and after Ruth's balloon adventure, I headed over to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... members who are MIT alums -- they all asked to see my Brass Rat. (One walked over to the table where Brit '05, Lara '06, and I were chatting and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... brilliance might be rare, the 2008 film from Columbia Pictures does underscore ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  our society desparately needs to be having. I am hopeful that this will ... Newtown, CT. I got home that night, ready to study for the final that I just ... the phone that night. "I'm about to watch a movie," he hastily answered

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Finals Week…A Different View ...Or why I got up way too early this morning...

  

  been, a "morning person". When I was a child my mother used to start the day by singing to me, "Good morning to you, good morning to you." I hated it, because all I wanted to do at that moment was go back to sleep

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • May 18, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  tend to be generous and share major appliances- there's no real need for ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... riddles whose solutions range from the sacred to the obscene but are always ... Monasteries. King Henry VIII gave the word to take over or destroy the nation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014